At the Last Minute

Estha Weiner has published three previous volumes of poetry. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street. Nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize, she was a 2005 winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize. She is founding director of Sarah Lawrence College NY Writers’ Nights Series, and Marymount Writers Nights. She is a Professor at CCNY, and serves or has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Stonecoast Writers’ Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, and The Writer’s Voice. She lives on Manhattan. Sometimes, the deepest things are enclosed in smallest packages; Lobster Rolls, a leg cast, a quotation from a beloved, but departed poet; the trick of poetry and the challenge to the poet is to turn the ordinary and make it blaze new in our mind, and this is a task Estha Weiner is more than up to in her fine book at the last minute. We read what she gathers for us here, and go, ‘yeah-that’s it. That’s the way we are.’ –Cornelius Eady